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Pliny the Elder, Natural History
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Samuel Adams
Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
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Sir Winston Churchill
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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W. Somerset Maugham
We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.
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Virgil Thompson
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
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Robert Anton Wilson
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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Vannevar Bush
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.
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Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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Hugh Elliott
I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each others lives.
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Ogden Nash
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
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Max Eastman
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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